Antisocial Personality Disorder

Antisocial personality disorder is a mental health condition marked by a persistent pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, beginning in childhood or early adolescence and continuing into adulthood, typically involving deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability and aggressiveness, reckless disregard for the safety of oneself or others, and a lack of remorse. It can only be diagnosed in individuals aged eighteen or older who showed evidence of conduct disorder before age fifteen, and it overlaps substantially, though not completely, with the related clinical concept of psychopathy.